right to be heard before another
• (n.) Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.
Pre·au'di·ence noun (Eng. Law) Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers. Blackstone. 
preaudience In law, the right to be heard before another. A privilege belonging to the English legal system, the members of which are entitled to be heard in their order, according to rank, beginning with the Attorney and Solicitor General, and Queen's Counsel, and ending with barristers at large.